Children’s House

In addition to our kindergarden program, Washington Montessori Public Charter School also hosts a private day school for children ages 3 and 4 years old and free public education is available beginning at age 5 (by Aug 31st of the school year).

The Day School is a private, non profit , tuition based program and requires an application fee. The application is available to the right of this information.

desire to learn. – Maria Montessori

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2. Language: Â Â A progression from babble to words to phrases to sentences, with a continuously expanding vocabulary and comprehension.Â

3. Small objects: Â A fixation on small objects and tiny details.

4. Order: Â Characterized to be a desire for consistency and repetition and a passionate love for established routines. Â Children can become deeply disturbed by disorder.

5. Music: Â Spontaneous interest in and the development of pitch, rhythm, and melody.Â

6. Grace and Courtesy: Â Imitation of polite and considerate behavior leading to an internalization of these qualities into the personality.

7. Reinfinement of the Senses: Â Fascination with sensorial experiences (touch, taste, sound, weight, smell) resulting in children learning to observe and in making increasingly refined sensorial discrimination.Â

8. Writing: Â Fascination with the attempt to reproduce letters and numbers with pencil or pen and paper. Â Montessori discovered that writing precedes reading.Â

9. Reading: Â Spontaneous interest in the symbolic representations of the sounds of each letter and in the formation of words.Â

10. Spatial Relationships: Â Forming cognitive impressions about relationships in space, including the layout of familiar places. Â Children become more able to find their way around their neighborhoods, and they are increasingly able to work complex puzzles.Â

11. Mathematics: Â Formation of the concepts of quantity and operations from the uses of concrete material aids.Â